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As you probably know, the How Related tool offers a View Report option which summarises the chain of relationships between two selected individuals. However this report contains only the bare outline. To see more details you would need to use an Individual Summary report or an Individual Narrative r...

It is not possible to create a diagram from a predefined list of records, but there are various techniques which can be used to customise a diagram to limit the number of records it displays. Click the expansion button above an Ancestor box or below a Descendant box to hide the entire branch above/b...

Your first line is correct, and selects all the individuals called Sarah. Each row in the query operates on the set which was left after the previous operation. So working on that list, your second line then needs to remove any of those people who were not born in 1840, so you need Exclude unless %I...

Mike, I can add a 6th item to your list of current ways to find where records are used. For Media records there is a Links tab in the Property box, which does what the name implies. Of your three suggested solutions I think I would favour the first, adding a Where Used button to each Property box. T...

.... I split the information in the third column into the Address field and the Place field for the occupation. I have just remembered that there are some cases where I don't do this but instead record this information in the note field after the employer's name. For example if someone says they ar...

That looks good.

Lorna, what is your preferred option when encountering the "Out of Work" field in 1921? I'm currently recording this as, for example, "Miner (Hewer) (Out of Work)", but I wondered if there's a better way? I do the same. It is an indication of what the person's trade/skill was an...

I wouldn’t raise any objection but to be honest I’m not convinced this is a necessary enhancement. You don’t need to go via Diagram > Family Connection Mapper. At present when you view any diagram (not just a How Related diagram) the Family Connection Mapper icon appears in the main toolbar near the...

There were, as you said in your first post, all sorts of responses entered in all three columns and the confusion often resulted in repetition. For example the name of the employer was sometimes entered in both the Employment column (correct) and the Place of Work column (incorrect). But there was u...

In addition to Mike’s questions, when you say you have ‘failed to include’ a generation, and you need to ‘insert’ them, do you mean you have skipped a generation so that someone has been linked directly to their grandparents as if they were their parents?

Don't put it all in the Expression field. You need to split it up like this:

Right-click on anywhere in the list and select Configure Columns. In the Configure Columns window scroll down to the bottom of the list on the left hand side and select <other>, then click the > symbol in the centre. Enter a heading ‘Spouse’ and in the expression field put INDI.~SPOU>NAME:SURNAME. C...

The default style for an All Relatives diagram in a top-down orientation has the direct Ancestors’ boxes further down than their siblings’ boxes. This is so that the lines linking them to their position among their siblings are clearly visible and don’t cross over other lines. However there is a ‘fl...

For the best quality, use Diagram > Save Diagram As > PDF file . Then use the second option, to Adjust PDF File Page Size so that Diagram fits into One Page. When you view the PDF file you can use the +/- buttons to zoom in and use the scroll bars to move around. This is not quite as easy as zooming...

My 4 x great grandfather is related to me and presumably that can be said for the 1st wife's children? Yes, but they are not as closely related to you as the second wife's children. You share more DNA with the children of the second wife, from whom you are descended, than with the children of the f...

It's correct. A child from his first marriage and a child from his second marriage will be half-siblings (because they have only one parent in common). So there will always be a 'half' relationship between their descendants. I assume you are descended from his second wife, which is why the children ...

In the case of someone’s own tree and photos on Ancestry, or their posts on Facebook, your initial ‘source’ of the information is the other person. Unless you have verified the information yourself you are relying on their own personal knowledge or their own research. Even in the case of a photo, yo...

I have looked for a Plugin that might help me eliminate (delete) <No Title> records, but have not found one if it exists. You don’t need a plugin for that. Just go to Records window > Media tab and click the heading of the first column to sort them into alphabetical order, if they are not already. ...

...how does one handle "Occupation" attributes without resorting to specifying a date, which is typically something reserved for events? Attributes can have dates. The difference between attributes and events (in FH) is that attributes have an additonal field for the value , which events ...

Ah! So the issue you have seen with images of ducuments appearing in diagrams is a sign of an underlying problem. Sadly Ancestry is not much help when it comes to handling sources other than its own. So instead of creating new sources in Ancestry I suggest creating the new sources in FH, which would...

It is normally recommended that only photos of the person are linked directly to the whole record for individual. Images of documents are linked to Source records and/or to the specific facts they support. Some documents can be a source for several different facts. For example a marriage certificate...

Not sure it's documented anywhere -- I assumed it was there form day 1, because I'm used to it from MS Word. CP have to draw the line somewhere, when deciding what to document. For example I don't think it's documented anywhere (in FH) that you can adjust column widths by hovering the mouse over th...

I have moved this topic from the Media forum to the Sources, Ctations & Repositories forum where it seems more appropriate.

AdrianBruce wrote: ↑12 Nov 2023 21:11 Notifications have always felt like treating a forum as if it were a mailing list.

A point well made.

Or am I just a saddo for going to the FHUG every day?

You're in quite a big club

...otherwise I'm left with doing "aft blah blah blah" to get, for example, a burial date to show up *after* a death date. Like Sarah, I wondered whether you were referring to the Date Entry Assistant. I would just add that it shouldn't be necessary to enter any date at all to get a burial...